Quote by Harry G. Franfurt

“After all, every use of language without exception has some, if not all, of the characteristic features of lies.”

— Harry G. Frankfurt

“Language is evidently one of the principle instruments or helps of thought; and any imperfection in the instrument, or in the mode of employing…

— John Stuart Mill

“Language stops being a tool; it becomes a map, not to truth but to the person who wrote it.”

— Arabella Sveinsdottir

“Words are steps along a path: the important thing is to get where you're going. You can play by all manner of rules, ...…

— Mark Lawrence

A degree of lying - you know, white lies - seems to be inherent in all languages and all forms of communication.

— Matthew Lesko

“What the survival of threatened languages means, perhaps, is the endurance of dozens, hundreds, thousands of subtly different notions of truth.”

— Mark Abley

“You lie enough and all of a sudden it’s like lying is the language you speak and your first language starts to disappear.”

— J.C. Lillis

“Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, lessens the friction of social contacts. It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, that…

— Clare Boothe Luce

“The mind lies using words. The heart has no words with which to lie. It conveys only truth.”

— Jeanne Watatsuki Houston

Language rarely lies. It can reveal the insincerity of a writer's claims simply through a grating adjective or an inflated phrase. We come upon…

— Irving Howe

“Words can lie. Words can deceive and delude and conceal and avoid. But the things you do, how you move, how you touch, those…

— Jasinda Wilder

“Every lie contains truth, and every truth contains a lie”

— Aki Shimizu